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Thursday, 12 April 2018

Why Weiwei is wrong. His Palestinian hero is a Hamas terrorist..

Ai Weiwei, is lauded globally for his work as a contemporary
artist. He is also a political activist.

Weiwei has visited Israel a couple of time. He came in 2016
to film his documentary ‘Human Flow. He was given permission to visit Gaza as part
of his project.

Resisting boycott calls, he returned to Israel in 2017 for
an exhibition of his work in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

But recently, he took to social media to publicize the death
of Yasser Abdullah Murtaja, killed during the violent Hamas provocations at Gaza’s border with Israel.

Apparently Weiwei met with Murtaja during the shooting of
his documentary. Weiwei posted a picture of Murtaja on his Instagram feed, saying
that he was a photojournalist who was reporting on the mass protests and that
he was shot by the Israeli military during the demonstrations and died in
hospital on April 6. He worked as a cameraman for Human Flow in Gaza in
2016. He added the words, “So sick!”He also retweeted a post from a blogger who wrote, “They…terrorize the
Palestinians. Gaza is an open air concentration camp.”

Murtaja was indeed a photojournalist. He was also a registered
Hamas fighter (terrorist). Photographs have been released which show Murtaja dressed
in Hamas military garb and carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. In another, he is pledging his devotion to Hamas and announcing his willingness to die for their cause.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in
Israel have accounted for the identities of those killed in the recent Hamas
provocations and reported that fully 80% were affiliated with a Palestinian
terror group.

Murtaja specifically belonged to the Sejaiya Battalion of
the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigade, branch of Hamas.

To Weiwei, Murtaja may be a talented human rights protester and photojournalist. To Israelis, he is a trained Hamas terrorist.

Weiwei should not use his art and his fame to pervert the truth and whitewash the haters and killers of Jews.